Does psycho surgery help in some refractory cases of Obsessive compulsive disorders?
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With the introduction of chlorpromazine in 1954, satisfactory medical management of psychiatric illness became possible. The availability of effective drug therapy in combination with the side effects of surgical intervention and its excessive use in the preceeding decades led to the sudden and almost complete disappearance of pyschosurgery for mental illness. Despite newer and even more specific psychotrophic medications, there remains a small percentage of patients with treatment refractory psychiatric disease that might be considered for surgical treatment. However, because of the ethical, legal and social implications of psychosurgery, only a limited number of surgical procedures are carried out at a handful of medical centers in the world today.
Brain surgery has awesome results . You don't die but you are forever free of emotions. Its like the great simplifier of life. Fortunately many are afraid to lose their personal identity. There is a site that has true life stories of survivors of lobotomy in the states.
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